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The latest issue of our Women’s Health Update is out, with articles on some current women’s health topics in Aotearoa New Zealand. This issue includes: Women’s Representation in Advertising and Gendered Activism Cartwright Forum 2016: The Control of Cervical Cancer in New Zealand The

The 2016 Cartwright forum was held on 5th August, and focused on ‘The Control of Cervical Cancer in New Zealand: Achievements and Prospects’. We were privileged to have Professor R Marshall Austin, Professor of Pathology and Director of Cytopathology at Magee-Womens Hospit

Our Cartwright Forum on Friday 5th August brought together health practitioners, health consumers and policy makers to: Review the impact of screening in the control of cervical cancer in New Zealand; Explore emerging issues for New Zealand relating to HPV immunisation in the control

On Friday, Women’s Health Action, the Cartwright Collective and Auckland Women’s Health Council held the annual Cartwright Forum ‘The Control of Cervical Cancer in New Zealand: Achievements and Future Prospects’. The forum was a lively debate on the role of cer

The Ministry of Health and Pharmac have announced changes regarding the human papillomavirus (HPV) immunisation in New Zealand next year. From January 2017, the HPV vaccine will be funded for males and females up to the age of 26 – previously the vaccine was only funded for fema

Women’s Health Action, in association with the Cartwright Collective and the Auckland Women’s Health Council is holding a forum on Friday, August 5th called ‘The Control of Cervical Cancer in New Zealand: Achievements and Future Prospects’ at the Potters Park Events Centre in Balmoral

The latest issue of our Women’s Health Update is out, with articles on some current women’s health topics in Aotearoa New Zealand.This issue includes: HPV primary cervical screening: What’s the hurry? – Considering the evidence around the National Screening Uni

Read the submission by Policy Analyst Dr Sandy Hall and Holly Coulter to the National Screening Unit on proposed changes to the National Cervical Screening Programme to make HPV testing the primary screening tool. Read the submission

The National Screening Unit is considering changing the primary laboratory test used in the Cervical Screening Programme from cytology, to a test for human papillomavirus (HPV). They are proposing to implement HPV testing as the primary screening test in 2018.The public are invited to

The saga of cervical screening in New Zealand Big Latch on, big gains Gender Bias in Medical Research Putting Gender back on the Health Agenda Download: Vol 18 No.2 June 2014 »View the references for the June 2014 WHU »